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CANADA'S GUN CONTROL LAW Keeping Canada safer GUN CONTROL WORKS 500 fewer deaths per year MYTHS AND FACTS Don't Be Fooled By The Sound Bites... SUPPORT FOR GUN CONTROL Experts and polls support the law... INTERNATIONAL The illegal gun trade is a global problem MAKE A DONATION Take action to make Canada safer |
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December 8 , 2009- Police Officers, Suicide Prevention Experts and Victims Maintain Myths, Misinformation and Money are Fuelling Efforts to Dismantle Firearms Registry...download pdf December 6 , 2009- Twenty Years after the Montreal Massacre: Gun Control is in Jeopardy ...download pdfDecember 6 , 2009- Gun Control News: Twenty years after the Montreal Massacre ...download pdf Mother of Montreal Massacre Victim Says "Help me keep our daughters’ legacy alive." ...Click here
Polytechnique Massacre Survivors Speak on Gun Control, Say "Help us ensure our classmates did not die in vain" ...Click here December 5- Press Release Antennes de paix Montreal Guns and Violence Against Women: A Dangerous Connection ...Click here November 16, 2009- Canadian Labour Congress Postcard Campaign Keep the Gun Registry: Disarm Domestic Violence ...Click here to send the postcard to the Prime Minister(you will leave the Coalition website) November 16, 2009- Twenty days before the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, the Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW) is denouncing the government's attempt to abolish the national gun registry. . ...Click here to view the CAW press release (you will leave the Coalition website)November 9, 2009- Press Release -Canadian Emergency Physicians opposed to repealing the Long-Gun Registry ...Click here to view the release (you will leave the Coalition website) November 9, 2009- Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres and Women’s Sexual Assault Centre of Renfrew County write Bill C 391 will prolong random acts of violence against women....Click here November 4, 2009 Press Release- MPs Playing Dangerous Politics with Women's Lives says YWCA Canada: Calls for Honouring the Montreal Massacre and Preserving the Gun Registry...Click here to view the release November 4, 2009-Press Release -Leading public safety groups appalled that Opposition parties will help pass Tory Bill dismantling the registration of rifles and shotguns ...download pdf On November 4, 2009 Jack Layton and Michael Ignatieff are Poised to Help the Conservatives Dismantle the Gun Registry and Turn back the Clock on Gun Control ...download pdfNovember 3, 2009 - Press Release: Victim’s Mother Pleads to Elected Officials Do Not Vote in Favour of Bill C-391 on November 4 ...download pdf November 1, 2009- Press Release: Canadian Association of Police Boards asks all members of parliament to reconsider dismantling of the gun control system when private member's Bill C-391 receives second reading on November 4, 2009. ... Click here to read the press release (you will leave the Coalition website) October 28 2009- Updated Homicide Data are here
October 2009 New Statistics Canada Report- Spousal homicides with firearms have declined by two thirds since 1995 while homicide without gunshave remained the same. Click here (You will leave the Coalition website October 20 2009- Updated Firearm Death Graphs are here September 28 2009- Press Release The Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW); dismantling gun registry a threat to public safety...download pdf September 23 2009- National Council of Women of Canada Call to Defeat Bill C-391... Click here to view the letter (you will leave the Coalition website) Press Releases archives are available here | Support Mothers for Gun Control Prorogation won't halt bill to scrap gun registry, or much else Canadian Press, January 5, 2010 ...download pdf Attorney General of Ontario writes: "Canada's long-gun registry protects public safety, don't pass private member's bill" Hill Times, December 14, 2009 ...download pdf Gun control advocates fight 'misinformation' CBC, December 8, 2009 ...download pdf Montreal Massacre reminds us why we need gun registry CBC, November 27, 2009 ...download pdf Police need gun registry. It keeps officials, victims safer, Quebec minister for the status of women says.
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Saskatoon's Star Phoenix First Nation perspective columnist writes " Dangerous mistake to scrap long gun registry" MPs disregard safety of rural Canadians Scrapping long-gun registry is pandering to vocal minority Gun registry worth fixing Distorting the gun facts Firearms database popular with police Tories release report on registry use two days after key Commons vote An appalling betrayal MPs are way off target The Long-gun registration has made Canada a safer place in the past 14 years - Parliament is wrong to kill it Gun registry an asset: (Halifax) Cop. Long-barrelled firearms just as problematic as handguns, officer says. (North Bay) City police oppose dismantling gun registry Rural overrepresentation defeats the people's will Canada's competing views on guns (Kelowna) Top Cop Says Gun Registry Should Stay Police would lose 'investigative tool' if gun registry scrapped Gun registry vital Members of Quebec national assembly passed a unanimous motion urging the federal government to preserve the national firearms registry Gun registry might have saved my daughter Head of Montreal Police Brotherhood says "removing long guns from the registry would erase 95 per cent of Quebec's registered firearms" Kenora Sexual Assault Centre joins call to defeat bill to amend Firearms Act Gun Victim's Mom Says: "Gun registry keeps guns out of hands of dangerous people" International Action Network on Small Arms says: "Canada's legislation on firearms has been a model for other countries (...) All this will be undermined if the registry is abolished." Toronto Police Chief: "We lose the gun registry at our peril" Reject gun-registry bill, MPs urged Tories target rural ridings on gun bill, trying to build majority Tories move closer to killing gun registry Firearms registry defended following gun seizure Timmins Police says service accesses information from the gun registry on a regular basis News archives are available here Since 1989, the Coalition for Gun Control has worked to reduce firearm death, injury and crime in Canada. Its 350 supporting organizations include the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, the Canadian Public Health Association, the Canadian Criminal Justice Association, women’s groups, victims groups, and others. |
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